Word: bleakness
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...things may not be as bleak as they seem. Lately demographers have come to the conclusion that the population locomotive--while still cannonballing ahead--may be chugging toward a stop. In country after country, birthrates are easing, and the population growth rate is falling...
...study of the universe as a whole, and there is no cosmological question about which we have more to learn than the riddle of where it's all ultimately headed. But we have glimpsed at least a few clues to cosmic destiny, some of them hopeful and others bleak...
...cappella groups have had their future cemented by the recent deal between the University and the Pudding grad board, the end of the social club could be near. Of course, people have spoken the same words about the club since 1795--and every time the future looked bleak, the Pudding pulled through...
...Goldstein was hospitalized 13 times in 1997 and 1998 alone and committed more than a dozen assaults, many on hospital staff, in that two-year span. In a devastating expose in the New York Times Magazine last May, Michael Winerip laid out a bleak chronicle of desperation and neglect: In addition to hearing voices, Goldstein variously asserted that someone had removed his brain; that he was six or eight inches tall; that his penis had grown from eating contaminated food; that a man named Larry was stealing his feces and eating them with a knife and fork...
...Loeb Ex is a dark, black space and A World Without History feels like perpetual night; it is crowded with guilt, suspicion and bleak hope. The title itself refers to the wishful thought that personal histories could be forgotten, uttered midway through the play. It could just as well have been titled, "a world without guilt," except that the word history evokes the epic complications of the plot...